Sandra Tsing Loh is interviewed in Salon this week about her new book, Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%@& Story About Parenting. Cali-mommy Loh was shocked, when the time came to send her eldest daughter to school, to find that the upper middle class had pretty much abandoned the public school system in L.A. But Loh couldn't afford private school tuition, and her book explains how she and her artist friends made public school education work for them. Loh is funny, profane, and authentic, and her voice will resonate with any of us who've wondered how we can give our urban children the same advantages as their private or suburban-school-enrolled peers.
